It is of interest to know that implements of exactly the same kind were found in the shellmounds of the Atlantic coast, e.g., in Maine.[[148]]
b. Chisel-like Implements of Varying Forms.
Implement 1-8730, [pl. 8, fig. 1], found in stratum V, has a length of nine and three-fourths inches and a breadth of one and seven-eighths and one and five-sixteenth inches. It will be seen that though of greater length and breadth it is flatter than the preceding. On account of its origin from a complete antler it is curved along its length, and slightly curved in on its concave side. At the lower end of the latter it is given a straight slant for three and a quarter inches in the diameter of the breadth. Its upper end shows the same signs of use with a hammer, while the slanting surface is greatly worn on the sides. This makes it probable that the use of this tool was in many respects different from the preceding. It was possibly used as a lever.
For this also a parallel exists in the form of an apparently identical implement from the shellmounds in Maine.[[149]] As regards form, certain implements of the bones of cattle found in the caves of French Switzerland are similar to this object. Rauch calls them “leather-cutters” (Lederschneidemesser).[[150]]
[146] A little information on this point is brought together by the writer in Mitth. der Anthrop. Ges. Wien., 1886, Vol. 16.
[147] A similar one from San Joaquin county has been illustrated by Moorehead, l. c., p. 271, fig. 410, No. 2. Cf. also F. W. Putnam, l. c., p. 229, figs. 106-108, wedge-like implements from southern California.
[148] Cf. Mason, Smithson. Reports, 1886, I, pl. xviii, fig. 19, with 10, 208.
[149] Cf. J. Wyman, l. c., pl. IV, figs. 2 and 2a with p. 583. Ch. A. Abbott, who represents the same implement, l. c., p. 211, fig. 196, says Massachusetts probably by mistake.
[150] J. Wyman, l. c., pl. XIV, fig. 1, with p. 582. Cf. also Ch. A. Abbott, l. c., p. 211, fig. 195. The implement is unfortunately represented in both places sidewise in an unfavorable manner.